On Sun, 2019-07-14 at 10:59 -0400, Aaron Bauman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 11:25:55PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 22:15 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > Maybe an example will help?
> > > What group or individual within Gentoo will determine if directing
> > > the umbrella to buy a Power9 system for the distro is a good idea 
> > > or not.
> > 
> > The Council, obviously.  As it should be doing it today, except by some
> > weird mistake Foundation decides to skip it entirely and authorize
> > technical decisions on its own.
> > 
> 
> What?
> 
> Buying an asset requires monies which requires some legal body with
> representatives to purchase said item. Roy's example above was not a "technical"
> decision.
> 
> Entertaining the response though, you *could* break this into (2) separate
> authorizations...
> 
> 1. Project $x requests a Power9 machine from council
> 
> 2. the council says/agrees we need a Power9 machine to carry out some technical
> function submitted for from project $x
> 
> 3. They authorize said procurement of a Power9 machine
> 
> 4. The "purse holder" (current Foundation or umbrella) goes and buys said Power9
> machine.
> 
> That is really not neccasary though.  No different then how the Foundation just
> purchases the new sparc asset.
> 

That's exactly the model I would like to pursue.  For each purchase
request, Council authorizes the purpose, while Trustees authorize
the finances.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny